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Monday, December 6, 2010

QTP support for 64bit apps

Below is the information that is published in the HP support site about the 64-bit App and OS support :

64-bit application support
Using QuickTest Professional version 10.0 and below to test 64-bit applications is not supported. QuickTest Professional supports testing on applications based on Win32 API and MFC. QuickTest Professional version 11.0 supports test particular techonologies on 64-bit applications after installing patch QTP_00699.

64-bit operating system support
QuickTest Professional 10.0 and 11.0 supports:
  • Windows XP 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack 2/Service Pack 3
  • Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 64-Bit Edition
  • Windows Vista 64-bit Edition—Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2008 64-Bit Edition (*)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition (*)
  • Windows 7 64-Bit Edition (*)
Note(*): These environments require patches QTP_00626 and QTP_00644
For more information see Document ID KM744522 - QuickTest Professional 10.0 Product Availability Matrix and Document ID KM543959 - QuickTest Professional 10.0 Readme
QuickTest Professional 9.5 supports:
  • Windows XP 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack 2
  • Windows Vista 64-bit Edition or Windows Vista 64-bit Edition—Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2008 64-Bit Edition
Note: For more information see Document ID KM480579 - QuickTest Professional 9.5 Readme
QuickTest Professional 9.2:
QuickTest Professional 9.2 supports Windows XP 64-Bit Edition-Service Pack 1 and Windows 2003 64-Bit Edition. Note: For more information see Document ID KM18464 - QuickTest Professional 9.2 Readme
QuickTest Professional 9.0/9.1 supports:
QuickTest Professional 9.0/9.1 supports Windows XP 64-Bit Edition-Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 32-Bit Edition-Service Pack 1, or Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86). Windows 2003 server 64-bit is not supported.
QuickTest Professional 8.2 (and below):
QuickTest Professional 8.2 (and below) does not support 64-bit operating systems. 

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HP releases patch (QTP_00699) to support 64-bit Applications in Windows 7

Download : http://support.openview.hp.com/downloadAPatch.jsp?patchName=QTP_00699.EXE&prodName=qtp&prodRelease=11.00

Installation instructions

Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard 
SupportLine User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms
and conditions for precautions, scope of license, 
restrictions, and, limitation of liability and warranties,
before installing this patch.
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1. Back up your system before installing a patch.

2. Execute the patch:

        QTP_00699.EXE

During the installation, if you select to save the original
files, those files will be copied to the directory
\Patches\QTP_00699\orig
e.g. "C:\OpenView\Patches\QTP_00699\orig"

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

TFS Bug Item Synchronizer 2.0 for Quality Center


Next major version of popular TFS Bug Item Synchronizer for Quality Center is now released.
TFS Bug Item Synchronizer is an tool which allows testing and development teams to work together using tools built for their usage. Testers enter defects in Quality Center and when defect is created and updated into TFS, developer can fix it, link all changes to it and mark it as fixed. After this the tester will continue process on Quality Center side to verify the fix. Similar to this developer can create a work item and have it synchronized over to Quality Center for testers to verify the fix.
With this tool it is possible to synchronize both Quality Center Defects and Requirements with TFS work items.
Testers will only need to use Quality Center and developers TFS, no need to have both applications on both teams as this tool works totally on the server side.
This version supports
  • Quality Center 10.0
  • Quality Center 9.2 
  • Quality Center 9.0
  • Quality Center 8.2
  • TestDirector 8.0
  • Team Foundation Server 2005
  • Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1
Major new features include following:
  1. Conflict resolution for cases where both Quality Center and TFS items have changed. This resolution works field by field.
  2. Added possibility to synchronize TFS work items with Quality Center Requirements
  3. Support for Quality Center Release and Cycle –fields on both Defect and Requirement section
  4. Support for multiple TFS servers
Full Release Notes can be found in here: TFS Bug Item Synchronizer Release Notes.
TFS Bug Item Synchronizer 2.0 for Quality Center can be downloaded from Download section in this site.
Installation includes 14 days fully functional trial version, full version can be purchased from here.

QTP 11 - What's New - New Features

HP QTP 11 - What's New??


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XPath and CSS based object identification :Identify objects not only using normal object identification but with XPath and CSS identifier properties.

The new improved results viewer provides an executive summary page with summary data, pie charts and statistics for both the current and previous runs and a quick link to the previous run results.





You can now create reg ex with the help of syntax hints. Regular Expression Evaluator is available to test regular expressions that you have created.

Identify objects not only in relation to each other but in relation to neighboring objects. Objects identified with ordinal identifiers are good only as long as they maintain their relative positions with respect to each other in the new build of application. In case if this position changes or gets interchanged, ordinal identifiers may go for a toss. HP has now introduced Visual Relation Identifier

With the help of LoadFunctionLibrary statement, you can now load a function library when a step runs instead of at the beginning of a run session.

Since QTP is integrated with Service Test, you can now test your GUI and non-GUI based apps in a single run.

Record Support For FireFox is now available.

QTP 11 is capable of receiving Java or .NET log framework messages from your application which can then be embedded in the run results.

You can use the new EmbedScript/EmbedScriptFromFile and RunScript/RunScriptFromFile functions to embed JavaScripts in all loaded browser pages. You can use these scripts to perform operations on, or retrieve data from, the browser pages in your application.

QTP 11 now supports Web 2.0 Toolkit Applications out-of-the-box similar to any other add-ins

You can instruct QTP 11 to automatically parameterize test steps at the end of record session.

Silverlight Add-in To test objects in Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 applications. [After installation, Silverlight Add-in is displayed in the Add-in Manager as a child add-in under the WPF Add-in]

You can use WPF and Silverlight Add-in Extensibility SDK to develop support for testing third-party and custom WPF and Silverlight controls that are not supported out-of-the-box

Useful for concurrent license users. With redundant license servers you can create failover, so that if your main license server fails, your remaining servers maintain availability of your licenses without causing any downtime or loss of licenses for users.



src: http://www.learnqtp.com/new-features-qtp-11-aka-functional-testing-11/
      http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1452494

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

HP Quality Center - Agile Accelerator

The HP Quality Center Agile Project Accelerator is a complete solution to help manage Agile development projects with the following features:

  •  Ability to manage both Agile development efforts and testing efforts within the same Quality Center project
  •  Pre-built process workflows and rules to guide Agile processes 
  •  Easy to configure pre-built Agile user roles and related privileges
  •  Agile reports and graphs to track progress, such as Burn-down, Burn-up and velocity graphs 

The Agile Accelerator can be imported into Quality Center as a base project with pre-defined Agile workflows, configurations and rules to start managing the Agile methodology driven projects out of the box. The pre-built content helps accelerate the development effort and testing efforts within the same Quality Center project.


Demo Video:


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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

HP Forums - Quality Center

HP Forums - Quality Center

IT Resource Center Forums > Management software and system tools > Quality Center

Link : http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=895

This category is for discussions around HPS Quality Center. Topics are related to:

- QuickTest Professional
- TD for Quality Center
- WinRunner
- Business Process Testing
- Delivery Dashboard
- Service Test Management

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Connect to QC Site Admin Api - SAClient.SaApi

src : http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1321283

Using VBScript:

Dim objSAClient, resp
Set objSAClient = CreateObject("SAClient.SaApi.9")
'you have to know which is the correct reference to the SiteAdmin

'then login as admin:
objSAClient.login "http://ipaddress/sabin", qcuser, qcpassword



Using PHP:

$objSAClient = new COM("SAClient.SaApi.9") ;
'you have to know which is the correct reference to the SiteAdmin

'then login as admin:
$objSAClient->login "http://ipaddress/sabin", qcuser, qcpassword



NOTE:
If you want to know what is the reference for the SAAPI you have to go to the regedit, "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SaClient.SAapi\CurrVer" and see what is the current version and use it.

For QC 9.2 : 
 The URL in the format http://[:]/sabin.

For QC 10.0 : 

 The URL in the format http://[:]/qcbin.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

HP QTP Extensibility Accelerator demo




See how the HP QuickTest Professional Extensibility Accelerator lets you to test Web 2.0 apps ‘out –of-the-box’ and easily extend your existing tools to support future Web 2.0 development.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

QualityCenter/QTP integration best practices

This session will cover common issues, tips and tricks, and details of HP Quality Center and QuickTest Professional integration.

Attend and learn about:

Details of integrating HP QuickTest Professional and Quality Center, including an explanation of how QTP assets and tests are stored in QC and how QTP communicates with QC
Troubleshooting common integration issues
An explanation of what QTP/QC log files are and how to use them
How to use TDAPI/OTA in QC
What's new in QTP/QC 10

We’ll also give you a chance to ask questions.
We look forward to your participation at this HP Software & Solutions Customer Connection Member Event.
Register today!
Wednesday, February 1008:00am PDT 11:00am EDT 17:00 CET